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File Name	shades_tsla_0019.tif
Creator	Allen and Rowell
Title	The Jubilee Singers, Original Company, 1871-1882
Alternate Title	The Jubilee Singers, Original Company from Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., ; 1871-1882, Eleventh Season.
Date	1882
Genre	Photographs
Description	Eleven elegantly dressed students (7 women and 4 men) surround an organ with two of the women seated. Text below notes this is the 11th season of the group's performance. The photograph was taken in the studio of Allen and Rowell, at 25 Winter Street in Boston in 1992. Note the false background pillars to the sides of the photograph.
Historical note	This photograph shows the original company of the Fisk Jubilee Singers. Excelling in popular sacred music, they toured the United States and Europe raising awareness and money to support Nashville's Fisk University, one of the earliest Historically Black Colleges. Proceeds from a tour of Europe in 1873-74 paid for the university's first permanent building. The handsome building, named Jubilee Hall, is still standing today.
Subject	Fisk University; African American musicians; African Americans - Music; Jubilee Singers; Choirs (Music); Spirituals (Song)
Subject (TGM)	Music ensembles Choirs (Music)
Theme	Making Music
Story	Jubilee Singers
Geographic Location	United States -- Tennessee -- Nashville
Time period	1880-1889
Language	eng
Contributing Institution	Tennessee State Library & Archives
Rights	Images reproduced on this website are intended for individual, educational use only. For research inquiries about specific objects or requests for high resolution images, contact the Tennessee State Library & Archives.
Identifier	89-120
Credit line	Merl Eppse Collection, Tennessee State Library & Archives
Type	Still image
Format	image/jp2
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Reference URL	http://content.mtsu.edu/u?/shades,25
Archival file	shades3/shades_tsla_0019.tif